July 19, 2007
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July 14, 2007
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iPhone & Enterprise Apps-"Apple will allow third party applications on the iPhone via Safari + Ajax...This is incredibly important. Within a year, every smartphone will have a first class browser capable of running Ajax applications over the Internet."
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"NetSuite, a Web-based-only service provider for ERP and CRM to the midmarket, runs on the iPhone without any major tweaking almost as well it runs on a desktop has a lot of people rethinking the capability of the iPhone as a business tool."
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IBM Impact Client Survey..."SOA is a business strategy ..more closely align IT with business goals, driving efficiencies, cost savings, productivity, and enabling the creation of more modular and global business designs."
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July 13, 2007
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Good article on U.P.S. using technology innovation to advance their business and the transportation industry.
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Highlights of CEP Vendor Announcements (Coral8, Aleri, Apama) from the June SIFMA show. Yes, I am behind in my reading...
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July 12, 2007
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July 08, 2007
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June 28, 2007
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Announced, not a standard: "BPEL4People extends the capabilities of WS-BPEL to support a broad range of human interaction patterns, allowing for expanded modeling of business processes within the WS-BPEL language."
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"WSDL (Web Services Description Language) 2.0 is now an official W3C Recommendation, which is the equivalent of a W3C standard."
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June 24, 2007
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“System S takes this four generations forward, to a highly distributed, highly scalable stream processing technology that can take in any type of structured or unstructured data without requiring reformatting and allowing anything to be done with it.”
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"The intention of the framework is to host applications that turn heterogeneous data streams into actionable intelligence." stream sources: sensors, tv broadcasts, market exchange streams, phone conversations, video feeds, email traffic...
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June 21, 2007
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I could see avatars being hired for a Web Worker Jobs. But, for traditional work, I vote for first life interviews. And yes, I have avatar control problems. She sinks in floors and walks through walls. I lack the patience to train her (or me).
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June 19, 2007
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"Maine Is First State in Nation to Pass Net Neutrality Resolve Resolution...“This is a victory for everyone who uses the Internet in Maine,"..."Every Mainer who uses the web for business, to find information or to speak their minds.."
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June 15, 2007
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June 12, 2007
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June 11, 2007
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one reason mashups are so popular is the availability of services to combine. IMO, a soa adoption barrier is the lack of available services (enterprise & the wild). too much focus on SOA bottom (tech), not enough on outcomes (services)
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recall when Synapse was *not* an ESB? A Mediation Framework I think. "After nearly two years of development, the open source Apache Synapse enterprise service bus (ESB) is ready for prime time with its 1.0 milestone release."
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steve on open source governance: "the relative strength and goodwill of your community, the adoption rate you can expect to see and so on." i can't help but think enterprises can learn about effective IT/SOA governance from open source.
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May 30, 2007
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The SOA-C agenda for Brussels. Good speakers, topics and participants. If you are in Europe, consider attending. The meeting is open to the public. Contact me for additional info - brenda at soa-consortium dot org.
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"An optimized business requires both service and event processing. When these processing types are combined, the result is extreme agility – enabling the enterprise to conduct business at light speed."
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May 29, 2007
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May 26, 2007
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Jon Udell's review of RESTFul Web Services by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby. Interesting excerpt on REST and transactions. Authors do not see "smooth glide" between ROA (REST oriented architecture) and SOA.
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RESTFul Web Services Table of Contents
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May 19, 2007
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"SOA as a business facilitator, supporting and easing mergers, acquisitions and outsourcing programmes...in the telecoms and airline sectors...aligning a SOA to facilitate and support an organization’s DNA, may be the greatest challenge."
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May 16, 2007
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Article is more balanced than the title. I'd like to see the WITI report. I know successful, influential, get the best projects, women in Tech. As well, I've seen/experienced the "no one hears the idea until a man restates it".
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May 09, 2007
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huh, google-proof babies..."So when Ms. Wilson, now 32, was pregnant with her first child, she ran every baby name she and her husband, Justin, considered through Google to make sure her baby wouldn't be born unsearchable."
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May 04, 2007
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MWD is looking for beta testers..."The heart of the tool is a self-assessment model that looks at six dimensions of competence/readiness: concepts, strategy, architecture, organisation & people, governance, and technology infrastructure."
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April 29, 2007
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Heffner says focus on: SOAP 1.1, WSDL 1.1, WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 or 1.1, UDDI 3.0.2, WS-Security 1.0 or 1.1, WS-BPEL 2.0, BPMN, WSRP 1.0, XML Schema 1.0, XSLT 1.0, XPath 1.0, XQuery 1.0, XML Signature and XML Encryption.
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Another example of Amazon's flexible business model due to service-oriented underpinnings...
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April 27, 2007
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"Executives at IBM, the world's No. 2 software maker, and MySQL told Reuters they will announce a technology and marketing partnership on Wednesday at a MySQL users' conference in Santa Clara, California."
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April 19, 2007
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"Companies ..connect their mail servers to a BlackBerry Enterprise Solution (BES) server located on their premises, which in turn is linked to one of RIM's NOCs, according to Mohr-McClune. "All data slides to Canada and back," she said."
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"The Advanced Placement high school course in computer science may be part of the problem...“It teaches Java programming, which is very appealing to a lot of people, but not to others. It doesn’t teach what you can do with computers.”"
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Suddenly, the "Raw Food diet" seems like a good idea.."An industrial chemical that led to a nationwide recall of more than 100 brands of cat and dog foods has been found to contaminate a second pet food ingredient, expanding the recall further."
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Overtaxed infrastructure? "During times of peak demand, Intuit was processing 50 to 60 returns per second, he said. IRS spokesman Bruce Friedland said filers who encountered delays with Intuit's servers will not be penalized if their returns rolled in lat
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April 17, 2007
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Writeup on Gartner report - A couple of points seem contradictory: ease standardization, yet rein in application and infrastructure proliferation. And yes, talk and measure in business terms, but don't lose sight of IT measurements
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April 16, 2007
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"MAY 12, 2017 - BUSINESSWIRE. Mountain View-based search giant Google Inc today announced they’ve acquired the internet for the astounding sum of $2,455.5 billion in cash."
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"OASIS...today announced that its members have approved the Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) version 2.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification."
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Final BPEL 2.0 Spec
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List of what's new is the BPEL 2.0 Spec. I'm looking forward to the publication (by OASIS) of the BPEL 2.0 primer. Guess I need to refresh my BPEL Primer for "2.0"
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April 12, 2007
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April 07, 2007
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The reason for my blogging lull... Working with the SOA Consortium on the Summits, Readouts, and Inaugural meeting. Lots of good content and discussion from the SOA-C activities, hope to bring that to the public soon.
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April 06, 2007
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Despite some shortcomings in this still-maturing product’s feature set, the easy-to-use tools and comfortable programming language will get your development teams moving. The final outcome is a solid engine with the potential to affordably address the a
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New Gartner Conference on Event Processing, co-located with Business Process Management. "This new conference brings together the thought leaders on event driven, real time enterprise solutions and business activity monitoring."
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April 04, 2007
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"the concept of Flat IT is that the traditional IT “Stack” (HW, Drivers, OS, Database, Applications, etc) essentially disappears. Capabilities (Business Services) are simply stitched together from a collection of smaller “services” that provide sp
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March 26, 2007
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integrate Tangosol w/Fusion, TimesTen in-memory database, & Oracle db...create a middleware stack capable of supporting applications carrying out real-time data analytics, grid-based in-memory computation and high-performance transactions.
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“beyond an optimum, more multitasking is associated with declining project completion rates and revenue generation.”
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March 25, 2007
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March 24, 2007
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March 22, 2007
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“You need the willingness to fail all the time,” he said. “You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.”
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"The emotional and political angles of trying to do this far outweigh the technical impact of trying to do it...Pitching 1,000 to 4,000 boxes together is not difficult...But trying to get a group of 25 applications to stop server hogging is demanding."
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March 12, 2007
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March 09, 2007
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the event processing language wars are heating up...see the comments on this post... The contenders: SQL, Rules, Procedural and Visual... Expect to see much more on SQL versus everyone else...
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Relatively New Event Processing Blog from the team at (Progress) Apama... John Bates, Mark Palmer, Chris Martins
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Rhysome's Bob Covington is compiling a list of existing or in process EDA/CEP standards. This is related to the OMG's SOA SIG interests in SOA, EDA and BPM
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March 08, 2007
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"Although many people equate orchestration with choreography, they are neither identical nor mutually exclusive." Good description of orchestration vs. choreography in this article (which excerpts a Burton Group report)
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"a new partnership between WebEx and SoonR will allow you to use your mobile phone's browser to get into your PC remotely. Some of the nifty features include transferring files, printing and searching your desktop."
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I wonder if green measurements (carbon emissions, water usage) will soon appear on balanced scorecards?
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"fundamental principles that a Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) should expose.These are not introduced as an absolute truth, but rather as a frame of reference for SOA-related discussions."
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March 07, 2007
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SOA, Events, CEP, and constant data flowing... Yup, all part of an overall architectural fabric/strategy.
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New Version of the innoQ Web Services Standards poster. Click on the poster visual to get the PDF.
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"MagicJack, which plugs into a computer's USB port and can be used with any conventional phone. It's being rolled out today"...29.95-39.95 purchase price; 19.95 *annual* license starting the following year...
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magicjack website... looks like there will be additional charges for international... launches in April
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February 25, 2007
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February 23, 2007
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"The Open Solutions Alliance will seek to expand the market for business open source software solutions through cooperative action that increases awareness of member solutions, reduces barriers to customer adoption, facilitates interoperability, and expla
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Alex Fletcher on the OSA "it will serve the open source community well to explore effective methods of advocacy which helps eliminate some of that knowledge gap...awareness, an open source product is free to prove itself what it often is, an equal if not
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JetBlue's new Customer Bill of Rights... appears customers can still get stuck on a grounded plane for 5 hours... which earns you a voucher to do it again... what they really need is partnerships with other airlines...no, I wasn't stuck at JFK *this* t
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"the Massachusetts bill -- a first of its kind -- would make any company, be it retailer, bank or data processor, financially liable if it is operator of the system that is hacked"...applies to any company doing business in MA, regardless of base. Wow!
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"Cisco Systems's acquisition ($135 million) of Reactivity on Wednesday gives the company some key tools it needs to carry out its vision of a services-oriented application architecture centered on the network."
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Can anyone help James bridge the six degrees of separation for the folks on his mentor search list? (see James' post). I think mentorship (being one and having one) is critical to success, and definitely not just for newbies...
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Gartner's Hype Cycle for 2005; SOA had entered the Trough of Disillusionment with a 2-5 year term to Plateau of Productivity (the good place).
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Gartner's Hype Cycle for 2006, no specific mention of SOA. However the research relates SOA to new entries MDA and EDA. Did SOA make it out of the trough onto the slope of enlightenment? Is "the peak of inflated expectations" really the chasm cross?
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text supporting Gartner Hype 2006...
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February 22, 2007
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This one-day conference will bring thought leaders from academe and industry together to explore the future of the software industry...offer a conceptual framework for the future of the software industry and pointers on where the best opportunities are to
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"The idea behind Activity Centric Worksites is to use blogging tools to facilitate focused business communication...To make it easy to frame the conversation, provide structure around simple concepts that make sense for your company..."
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"Looking to spur wiki adoption? Want to grow from 10 users to 100, or 1000? Applying patterns that help coordinate peoples' efforts and guide the growth of content can give your wiki the greatest chance of success...recognizing anti-patterns.."
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"it is the beginning of the movement from the read/write web that has propelled the success of blogs, wikis and every kind of user created content vision Web 2.0 to the executable and recombinatorial web."
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JSR 311: JavaTM API for RESTful Web Services. This JSR will develop an API for providing support for RESTful(Representational State Transfer) Web Services in the Java Platform.
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"A connected world places an enormous premium on people who are fluent in communications: expressing ideas, positioning offers, inferring power relationships, decoding nuances, deflecting the manipulations of others...the rise of the articulate and the ma
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"Digitization of work is profoundly world-flattening...Instrumentation and institutions that create visibility and control over processes...Everything will ultimately resolve to a Service Level Agreement and a series of compliance-assuring mechanisms."
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February 18, 2007
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this is really cool... an immersive visualization experience...
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Mule ESB case study by Walmart.com's enterprise architect
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"Shouldn’t governance with SOA ultimately be about delivering on your business and SOA objectives?...This article outlines a framework for governance ..and introduces our Six Steps to Successful SOA Governance model."
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February 16, 2007
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RFID at WalMart is still costly for suppliers and (apparently) hasn't paid of yet for WalMart
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"Following the lead of the MIT and other highly competitive schools, more institutions are posting online everything from lecture notes to sample tests, and even making audio and video files of actual lectures publicly available."
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"Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract laptop PC manufacturer, already has confirmed orders for one million notebook PCs for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, a company representative said Thursday."
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"Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Release 7 is the first major version of the TimesTen database developed internally by Oracle since the company purchased TimesTen, a startup firm that specialized in data management, in 2005."
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"Stevens introduced Senate bill 49...would require that any school or library that gets federal Internet subsidies would have to block access to interactive Web sites""...Stevens ...He's certainly a buffoon, but he's a dangerous one."
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"3C = Content, Commerce, Community | 4th C = Context | P = Personalization | VS = Vertical Search. This, I submit, is the formula for the future: Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)."
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"How companies do business will often be more important in 2010 than what they do." Economist Business 2010 series from 2005, sponsored by SAP
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"In Business 2010, companies will need to embrace IT as a strategic, competitive weapon to enable rapid innovation." "Even as new business models are adopted, the IT system should be adaptable to reflect these changes quickly."
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"Two trends in information technology will become increasingly important to CIOs in 2007: a migration to service-oriented architectures and the introduction of lean-manufacturing principles to data center operations."
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February 15, 2007
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"successful CIOs understand that "business knowledge has to become the highest common denominator across the IT shop." That presents a challenge for some companies where the IT department focus is more on technical expertise."
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IBM touted Sonoma, SaaS offered capacity planning tool. "it will enable customers to size SOA-based workloads to meet future performance and scalability requirements. Sonoma is the latest version of the company's OPERA tool for capacity planning."
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